Ipad or Kindle?  This is a question many avid readers debate as they enter the modern world of reading.  My memory of reading as a kid was sensory and tangible: flipping dog-eared, yellowing pages at the library; savoring the smell of a new hardcover book as I attempted to earn my free “Book It” pizza.  [...]

Tequila is generally distilled within five Mexican states using only blue agave sap and in accordance with a certified process. According to this ABA Journal article, however, the demand for tequila has increased so drastically that a slew of copycat distillers have cropped up that use–in addition to traditional agave–water, sugar-cane alcohol, and additives that [...]

We here at IPLJ are so happy to share Book 3 of Volume XXII with you. Take a look through Book 3′s articles and student notes here and feel free to leave us feedback in the comments!

Earlier this month, at the annual Coachella Music Festival, concertgoers were stunned to witness the performance of a lifetime, or should we say, an afterlife-time.  At the festival, nearly 100,000 fans witnessed a holographic Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, performing alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.  Shakur appeared on stage, performing two songs and [...]

Recently, pictures of the wedding ring that Brad Pitt has designed for wife-to-be Angelina Jolie have been released.  Undoubtedly, replicas of such rings are soon to follow.  Kate Middleton’s sapphire ring has yielded many imitations and there is no reason to believe that Angelina’s ring will be any different.  Some have speculated that Brad may [...]

Perhaps someone should have let Francis Ford Coppola know about this common phrase before he went ahead and sued the owner of Tavola Italian Kitchen restaurant in Novato, California, claiming the name infringes his “a tavola” trademark used to market his eateries.  Francis Ford Coppola Winery and restaurants in San Francisco and Napa Valley have used the [...]

Daniel Boulud, the world-renowned chef, is suing a Buffalo music club and restaurant for trademark infringement.  Boulud wants the owners of Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar to stop using the name DBGB, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Manhattan. Boulud’s complaint claims he claimed the name after he opened DBGB Kitchen & Bar [...]

After file sharing (or “cyberlocker”) website Megaupload was taken down by law enforcement on January 19, 2012, the companies charged with storing data relevant to the case have begun to complain about the costs of letting their servers sit unused.  In fact, Carpathia Hosting has petitioned the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for emergency protection from the [...]

Patent litigations between competing high tech companies have become standard business practice. In recent years, patents have increasingly gained importance in the high-tech industry as tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and others have sought to stockpile patents in order to sue their competitors and to ward off lawsuits.  Companies are willing to [...]

All secrets might not be trade secrets, but apparently trade secrets might not actually have to be secret? Back in July of 15, 2011, PhoneDog LLC filed suit against its former employee, Noah Kravitz, over the ownership of a Twitter account, “@PhoneDog_Noah.”  PhoneDog had hired Kravitz as a phone reviewer and video blogger and gave [...]